Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)

Directed by

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Genre

musical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British musical comedy set in post-war Vienna. It reimagines the operetta Die Fledermaus with the city divided among the four Allied powers. Characters scheme and dance through a party that ends with a hint for the occupying forces to leave.

livelywhimsicallightheartedmusicalcomedicsatiricalcampynostalgic

What happens

Oh... Rosalinda!! (also known as Die Fledermaus ) is a 1955 British musical comedy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Ludmilla Tchérina and Anton Walbrook and features Anneliese Rothenberger and Dennis Price. The film is based on the 1874 operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss, but updated to take place in post-war Vienna as occupied by the four Allied powers: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the USSR. The music, played by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under conductor Alois Melichar, has new lyrics by Dennis Arundell, and professional singers dubbed for some of the actors. The choreography is by Alfred Rodrigues, and the production was designed by Hein Heckroth. As the film closes in the early hours at the party at the hotel, Falke points the message to the representatives of the four powers, while thanking them for their presence: "even the dearest friend loses his attraction if he overstays.... so if you don't mind, go home, please go home"; at which the waltz "Brüderlein, Brüderlein und Schwesterlein"/"Brothers, brothers and sisters" ('Be my friend') starts up. Oh... Rosalinda!! is a light-hearted Technicolor romp that makes full use of the new CinemaScope process, and is not just a film of a staged production but a filmic operetta. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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